St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
About Ten Women.


Though Henry George has acquired
such large celebrity, his wife's name has
hardly been mentioned in the papers
that speak of him so often and so much.
She is a thorough home body, devoted to
her husband and their four children.
She is one of tire small, plump, CHEEKY
bodies that never get dOWnhearted, and
people who have known them long
time say that but fcT her untiagging de-
vOtiOn and enthusiastic belief in him,
Mr.. George would never have been able
to come triumphantly through the long
period of Straitened means and hard
work which preceded his sudden sue
cess.
People who know Nina Van Zandt say
that she is a very different woman from
what the newspaper accounts would
have one to think. They say that her
love for Spies is genuine affection, as
deep and intense as that of Il girl for her
first hero.
Mrs. Josephine Redding is one of the
most successful women journalists in
New York. For several years she has
been the editor of the Art Interchange,
and under her management that paper
grew SO successfully that its publishing
company found it necessary to estab-
liSh another paper, sort of annex, the
Home Decoration, and at once installed
her in its editorial chair. She conducts
both publications with so much ability
that they have large calculations, and
are financially very successful. Mrs.
Redding is a young woman, small, slight
and brown-haired, with pretty piquant
face and charming, vivaciOuS manners:
Kate Field is very fond of riding, and
when she lived in New York always
kept horse, which never lacked for ex-
ercise and of whose intelligence and ac-
c0mpliShmentS she was very proud. She
is good hOrSewOman and makes q fine
figure on horseback.
Bertha Won Hillern, who has been
gaining good deal of success as an ar
fist since she quietly gave up pedeS-
trianiSm few years ago, is q devoted
Catholic. In the wilds of West Virginia,
where she spends her summers, she will
walk ten miles and back under the
burning summer sun whenever the pos
sibility occurs of attending mass. Dur
ing her brief winter sOjOurnS in Boston
she rises before day, walks a long dis
lance to the cathedral, attends the first
mass and walks back to her hotel in time
for an early breakfast.
Mrs. Frances HOdgSOn Burnett is
small in stature, but very plump, and
has large square face, with fresh,
English complexion. She is very youth
full, eoquettiSh in her manners, and
talks in a girly-girlish kind of way.
Those who do not like her even go so
far as to say she is very affected in her
manners.
Although Miss Murfree seems to have
leaped into fame at single bound, she
has really been writing for a long time.
1t is ten or a dozen years since the sig
nature of Charles Egbert Craddock first
appeared i'll the magazines, and ever
since then her stories of the Tennessee
mountains have been frequent visitors
to the pages OF several magazines. But
they did not attract attention until the
English went into raptures over "Where
the Battle was Fought, land then she
suddenly found herself famous.
Mrs. JenneSS Miller, whose system of
aesthetic dress reform is beginning to
attract good deal of attention, was
once dreSSmaker, but her enthusiasm
for woman suffrage was aroused, and
she left her dreSSmaking for the lecture
platform and spoke through Massachu-
sets for the sutfragists. She afterward
eSpOuSed Ben Buffers cause and deliv-
cred several addresses in his behalf dur
ing his successful campaign for the Mas
SachuSettS goyernOrShip.
MIS-. Julla w ara Howe mas always be-
lOnged to that class of women who were
dubbed "Str0ng-minded" some twenty
five or thirty years ago, but even that
reputation and her Concord philosophy,
too, do not lessen her terror of crossing
crowded street. She will gaze help
lessly across, cling to anybody who
offers assistance, stand in the middle of
the street and stare an approaching
horse car, and then grab up her skirts
and run back just as scoffing men de-
clare women always do.
Lucy Stone, to all young women whom
she meets, in any way whatever, is the
personification of mOtherlineSS. One
invOluntarily thinks of her as being the
ideal matron of a home for young girls.
She is small, and increasing years have
made her rather stout, while her fresh
and rosy complexion causes her to look
much younger than she really is.